32000 Lecture

WiSe 17/18: Ringvorlesung: Capitalism and the North American City

Markus Kienscherf, Martin Lüthe

Information for students

Course requirements: We will discuss course requirements in our first session, as they depend on the number of students enrolled in the seminar. In addition to regular attendance and active ... read more

13 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Wed, 2017-10-25 18:00 - 20:00

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Introductory Session

Wed, 2017-11-01 18:00 - 20:00

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Markus Kienscherf (Sociology): Parking Tickets and Class Oppression: Capitalism, Urban Governance and the Police in America

Wed, 2017-11-08 18:00 - 20:00

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Martin Lüthe (Culture): Poverty’s Paradise? Hip Hop, Capitalism, and the North American City

Wed, 2017-11-22 18:00 - 20:00

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Sönke Kunkel (History): Earthquakes, Winds, and Fires: Natural Disasters and Capitalism in North American Cities

Wed, 2017-11-29 18:00 - 20:00

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Stefanie Müller (Culture): The Monster on Chestnut Street: Anti-Corporate Rhetoric and the Second Bank of the United States

Wed, 2017-12-06 18:00 - 20:00

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Alexander Starre (Culture): Comprehending Class in the Industrial City: Jane Addams's Chicago and W.E.B. Du Bois's Philadelphia

Wed, 2017-12-13 18:00 - 20:00

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Jonathan Fox (Economics): Progressive Era Public Health in the American City

Wed, 2018-01-10 18:00 - 20:00

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Lauren Kroiz (Culture): Leaving the Body: The Empty Spaces of American Modernism

Wed, 2018-01-17 18:00 - 20:00

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Markus Kienscherf (Sociology): Producing Privacy: Homes and Households

Wed, 2018-01-24 18:00 - 20:00

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Boris Vormann (Bard College Berlin): Varieties of Urbanization? The City in American Political Development

Wed, 2018-01-31 18:00 - 20:00

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Talja Blokland (HU Berlin): The ghetto, state surveillance and control

Wed, 2018-02-07 18:00 - 20:00

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James Dorson (Literature): "These bourgeois cities will kill you: Antiurbanism, Populism, and California Naturalism"

Wed, 2018-02-14 18:00 - 20:00

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